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Texts and Contexts Seminar: Reading the Classics in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, October 26, 2018

Texts and Contexts
October 26, 2018
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Ohio Staters, Inc., Traditions Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street

 

9:30 – 10:00 am – Coffee and snacks

10:00 am – 12:30 pm – SESSION I.  Moderator: Michael Meckler (The Ohio State University)

10:00 – 10:45 am – Marjorie Curry Woods (University of Texas at Austin):  The Appeal of Short Classical Texts

10:45 – 11:30 am – David Gura (University of Notre Dame): A Commentary to the Psychomachia of Prudentius and its possible Orléanais connections

11:30 – 11:45 am – BREAK

11:45 am – 12:30 pm – Justin Haynes (UCLA): Reading Ovid and Virgil in the Pseudo-Ovidian De vetula


12:30 – 2:00 pm – LUNCH


2:00 – 3:30 pm – SESSION II.  Moderator: Quinn Griffin (Grand Valley State University)

2:00 – 2:45 pm – Julia Haig Gaisser (Bryn Mawr): Tibullus in the Roman Academy

2:45 – 3:30 pm – William Little (The Ohio State University): Reading Ovid’s Epistula Sapphus in Renaissance Italy


3:30 – 4:00 pm – BREAK


4:00 – 5:00 pm – Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture.  Introduction: Anna A. Grotans (The Ohio State University)

Siân Echard (University of British Columbia): Writing (on) History: Annotation in Manuscripts of Medieval British Historians

 

5:00 – 6:30 pm – Reception in the Student-Alumni Council Room